Peter Doig Quotes

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

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• It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

  

  Ian Hacking
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  • Important
  • Rules

• Our output and continued success is all about our culture. Ours has to be highly collaborative, and we have company-wide events and processes to make sure everyone stays aligned.

  

  Parker Harris
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  • Culture
  • Success Is

• Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
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• Great men marry great women.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
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  • Men
  • Women

• I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

  

  Pat Paulsen
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  • Pretty

• I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
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• If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.

  

  Vince Gilligan
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  • Same

• Through a painting we can see the whole world.

  

  Hans Hofmann
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• The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

  

  Frances Farmer
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• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
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  • Think

• I'm bad at returning phone calls.

  

  Zac Efron
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• 'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.

  

  Nancy Travis
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  • Family
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• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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  • Mind
  • Death

• The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

  

  Tacitus
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  • Desire
  • Safety

• I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there's been some really dull moments, really high moments, really low moments, but it's always felt like everything's moved in the right direction; it always feels great, and everything feels right.

  

  Olly Murs
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• I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.

  

  Ed Koch
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• Most of us can now record a whole series with the click of a button. We all have DVD players, and the rise of the DVD box-set means we watch this stuff in two, three-hour sessions. So there is this real appetite out there for lengthy, pretty intricate drama. All that is great news for writers.

  

  Ted Danson
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  • Real
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• Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie.

  

  Laura Dern
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  • Great
  • Done

• He's a man who... well, one of the great things about Shakespeare is that his characters are inconsistent, and that's something I think makes him a writer above most writers because inconsistency is what we, as people, are full of. We maybe don't see it in ourselves too often, but we are inconsistent.

  

  Jeremy Irons
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• When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • World
  • Children
  • School

• I saw the Vibe article, but I don't really comment on that because I know it's not true.

  

  Aaliyah
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• We must use every inch of our blood to take back every inch of our land, you ten thousand youths and soldiers.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek

• I'm bound to say that New York's a topping place to be exiled in. Everybody was awfully good to me, and there seemed to be plenty of things going on, and I'm a wealthy bird, so everything was fine.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

  

  Peter Doig
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